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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

Trump grift exposed? Dems say his businesses raked in $8 million from foreign governments while prez

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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4.53.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with President Biden's powerful new ad on the Trump threat to democracy amid new polling that shows a shocking number of Americans do not believe what they saw with their own eyes on January 6th. Plus, two new challenges to Trump's place on the ballot arise, this time in Florida and Illinois, as a deadline looms for the U.S. Supreme court to decide on his disqualification in Colorado. Also in this episode, we bring you the scandal that the Republican-led Oversight Committee will not be investigating: the millions of dollars Trump raked in from foreign governments while he was president, according to a new report from House Democrats. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0

Tonight on the readout.

0:06.4

There's something dangerous happening in America.

0:09.4

There's an extremist movement and does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy.

0:14.0

All of us are being asked right now what will we do to maintain our democracy?

0:20.0

History is watching, The world is watching.

0:23.0

President Biden's powerful new ad on the Trump threat to democracy,

0:28.0

amid new polling that shows a shocking number of Americans don't believe what they saw with their own eyes

0:35.1

on January 6th. Plus two new challenges to Trump's place on the ballot this time in

0:40.4

Florida and Illinois,

0:42.6

as a deadline looms for the US Supreme Court

0:45.1

to decide on his disqualification in Colorado.

0:48.6

Also tonight, the scandal

0:50.3

that the Republican-led Oversight Committee won't be investigating the millions of

0:55.2

dollars Trump raked in from foreign governments while he was president.

1:09.0

But we begin tonight with the 2024 election cycle that's already underway. Nearly three years after a heavily armed,

1:12.0

Trump-incided mob attacked not just the U.S. Capitol

1:14.8

building but also democracy and the rule of law.

1:18.2

Tomorrow President Joe Biden will deliver his first major re-election speech of the new year, marking the third anniversary of the

1:25.4

January 6th attack.

1:27.4

The speech will amp up his warning about the fragility of America's democracy at a time when the stakes couldn't be higher.

1:35.2

We are in a Def Con one moment for American democracy, and the Biden campaign is focused on the

1:40.1

urgent message that American democracy would not survive another Trump presidency.

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